I read this book for the True Crime category of Nonfiction Reader Challenge, a genre that I usually don't gravitate to. The factual starting point was a matricide by a young boy in Victorian London. Records from Robert's trial, his subsequent time in the Broadmoor insane asylum, and an intriguing glimpse at this later life … Continue reading Nonfiction Reader: The Wicked Boy

In Michael Ende’s modern fable Momo, first published in 1973, the title character is a young girl who lives in a ruined amphitheater on the outskirts of an unnamed European city. Momo’s outer appearance is a bit strange, with her wild black hair and man’s jacket that is too big for her, but she has … Continue reading German Literature Month: Momo

Rinkitink in Oz, book 10 in the series, is a book I never read as a child. My library didn't have it, and I didn't make an effort to seek it out, since I'd heard it "wasn't really an Oz book." In fact, it's an unpublished, unrelated story that Baum wedged into the series by … Continue reading #Ozathon24: An Oz Appendage

In one month, I'll be in Chestnut Ridge, New York, where I will be giving a lecture and workshop based on my book, When Fragments Make a Whole. Please share this information with anyone who might be interested and able to come, and of course, consider yourself invited! Working with the Healing Power of the … Continue reading Coming Soon: Lecture and Workshop in Chestnut Ridge, NY

I am pleased to announce that my blogging friend Robin Bates has a new book available: Better Living Through Literature: How Books Change Lives and (Sometimes) History. Can books create such personal and social change, and is that in general a good thing? I think all of us here believe the answer is "yes", but … Continue reading Book Excerpt: Better Living Through Literature

In The Patchwork Girl of Oz, another animated character is added to the roster of inanimate objects brought to life in Oz: the Patchwork Girl, created out of a crazy quilt to be a servant to a magician's wife. "Scraps" resists that dreary fate, though. Due to the intervention of a boy named Ojo, she's … Continue reading #Ozathon24: A colorful new character

This week’s topic is hosted by Hopewell’s Library of Life. It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR? Be sure to link back to the original blogger who posted about that book! Indeed, it's been another wonderful Nonfiction November, and as usual I'd discovered so many … Continue reading Nonfiction November: New to my TBR

I've never done this meme before, although I've seen it floating around for years, but when I saw Annabel's 2022 edition I thought I'd give it a try, and it was quite entertaining to complete the prompts with books I read in 2022. What would your answers be? In high school I was: Educated People … Continue reading My Life in Books 2022